Annus mirabilis. I have found the page I lost many times. Here’s hoping. https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/andrew-scheer-social-controversy-conservative-1.5264360 Wow! That’s Canada’s big election issue? Right. Who gives a damn about climate change? Right? Who…
Not a good week. I have written a post for Saturday on the Canadian election. Unlike the others, it is not a survey of news media. It is my attempt…
….our billionaires need your money._______________________________________________________________ https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/trump-oil-and-gas-methane-emissions-1.5263859 Of course. And before you heave a sigh of relief that we Canadians don’t live in the U.S., think. Canada’s Conservative party is the…
My birthday is winding down. So I have time for a brief blog.________________________________________________________________The best article on the Koch brothers I have seen. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/aug/27/death-destruction-david-koch-legacy Take this very seriously. The Koch brothers…
_This may be a little shorter than usual. I had to deal with computer problems.________________________________________________________________https://www.rt.com/news/467142-david-koch-richest-dies/ Russia Times is, of course, a propaganda agency. But it doesn’t lie. Indeed, it beats…
https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/shock-denmark-greenland-cancels-visit-1.5254311 This is serious. The U.S. has a president whose ego is wildly out of control. And it can only get worse. This is a man of huge arrogance and…
A note on the leaders in our business world.. (This article immediately below is not by me. This is from a note that was sent on to me.) “In January…
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/afghan-cenotaph-dedication-again-1.5250149 We most certainly should remember those who died in Afghanistan. But we should not use such an event to glorify war – though that’s a bad habit we have.…
https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/trump-cucinelli-statue-of-liberty-verse-europe-immigrants-1.5246852 And the evangelical churches that support Trump will also support this racist policy.__________________________________________________________________https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/aug/14/trudeau-broke-ethics-law-in-snc-lavalin-case-watchdog-rules https://www.cbc.ca/news/opinion/ethics-report-1.5247595 And Conservatives would never, ever break the ethics law. No. Well, not unless they could…
https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/jeffrey-epstein-investigation-1.5243121 Prince Andrew could be up to his ears in this one. Many years ago, he was a student at a boys’ expensive school in Ontario. I met one of…
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/aug/09/bolsonaro-blessed-brutal-assault-rainforest-sacked-scientist-warns The U.S. is intervening in Venezuela and Iran to steal their oil. It is intervening all over the middle east and Africa. It threatens China. Most of our news…
Of course we’re getting a lot of violence mixed in with our politics these days.That happens when politicians play the race card – and when so many of our politicians…
https://www.cbc.ca/news/opinion/health-care-investment-1.5212828________________________________________________________________ https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/stock-indexes-plunge-china-u-s-trade-war-1.5236572 The U.S. routinely hammers poor and smaller nations with its economic power and it’s ability to destroy economies – as it has been doing with Venezuela and Iran.…
Our politicians just love to give glib talks about how they’ll deal with climate change (which they may or may not think is happening.) But it’s not that easy. In…
https://www.themonthly.com.au/issue/2019/august/1566136800/jo-lle-gergis/terrible-truth-climate-change?fbclid=IwAR3sc6L4dIXzScxKJVKpQWLyxdwQs-Bt-S-D68tJo7dE_PdxLal_T1nZY54 This is a new one, all the way from Australia. And you won’t find it in most (any) Canadian commercial news media.________________________________________________________________ Mind you – not all Canadians are…
https://newsinteractives.cbc.ca/longform/shifting-ground Don’t worry. There is no climate change. If there were, the Conservative Party would have told us._________________________________________________________________https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/being-china-support-hong-kong-carrie-lam-protests-1.5228707 I think ( I very much fear) that China is going to…
A reader sent a post to this site requesting information. However, the site given by the reader does not seem to exist._______________________________________________________________ This is a profoundly depressing day for me…
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/jul/24/summers-second-heatwave-set-to-break-records-across-europe https://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/climate-change-2000-years-1.5222258 https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/europe-heat-wave-breaks-records-could-go-even-higher-1.5224284 Hey! Don’t worry. The Conservative party says it ain’t happenin’. And they know things. Look. We have thrown away thirty years when we should have taken action.…
Not with a bang, but a whimper.”______________________________________________________________ https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/jul/20/britain-lured-into-deadly-trap-on-iran-by-trump-hawk-john-bolton I thought Trump had quietly, with saying so, dumped John Bolton. Apparently, he hasn’t. And Iran is now a super dangerous war…
https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/trump-approval-ratings/ Does this matter? Probably not. The leading Democrat is Joe Biden whose major advantage is that he doesn’t spout extreme views as Trump does – but is really not…
